Bug 582953

Summary: Misleading help information about lvcreate command
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Yufang Zhang <yuzhang>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Yufang Zhang 2010-04-16 09:26:06 UTC
Description of problem:
lvcreate command is misleading for it mixes up 'logical volume' with volume group.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libguestfs-1.0.85-1.fc12.3.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.><fs> help lvcreate 
NAME
    lvcreate - create an LVM volume group

SYNOPSIS
     lvcreate logvol volgroup mbytes

DESCRIPTION
    This creates an LVM volume group called "logvol" on the volume group
    "volgroup", with "size" megabytes.

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Actual results:


Expected results:
><fs> help lvcreate 
NAME
    lvcreate - create an LVM logical volume 

SYNOPSIS
     lvcreate logvol volgroup mbytes

DESCRIPTION
    This creates an LVM logical volume called "logvol" on the volume group
    "volgroup", with "size" megabytes.


Additional info:

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-04-20 19:12:18 UTC
libguestfs-1.2.3-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.3-1.el5

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-04-20 22:25:49 UTC
libguestfs-1.2.3-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.3-1.fc13

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-04-21 12:42:37 UTC
libguestfs-1.2.3-1.fc12.6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.3-1.fc12.6

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-05-21 00:31:29 UTC
libguestfs-1.2.3-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.